*. 1998.
Jama: Red Card
Recent works from the frontier zone between painting, anamorphosis and photography.
„Good to have the silence. Answer for the photos, answer for the work and answer for the life that
Antal Jama Farkas lives. How would he have lived in the last century or in the previous eras? I
might be wrong with the answer, still I am saying in the same way. I know that he’s got not only
spiritual but even physical contact with his own photos. This is his life-style, this is how
everything is around him; this is how he handles the time… He finds it important to have the
freedom of movement, passing through betwen the genres… He puts the camera down and puts his
things in front. Spaces are created in which relics disappear and reappear again and again. Spaces
are transformed into living areas and he talks to the figures composing the photos either it’s an
object or a human. He lives together with the cardboard man, with the cogwheel fruit and the
painted cake… He looks out of the picture from time to time. Humour and irony appear in his absurd
world. One is easy and laughing, the other is aggressive and destroying. We, the audience are
meant to make the choice. He exposes and a new game begins.” (Gábor Kopek)